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Without a sound, with the soft bound of a nocturnal beast, the iron cage arose from the night, wedged itself on the bolts with its four decks, each containing two trains full of coal.
The cages rose and sank with the gliding movement of a nocturnal beast, always engulfing men, whom the throat of the hole seemed to drink.
Something burnt in the air--an enormous lamp, the exact appearance of which escaped his beast's memory--and he stood with lowered head, trembling on his old feet, making useless efforts to recall the sun.
Meanwhile, the manoeuvres went on in the shaft, the signal hammer had struck four blows, and the horse was being lowered; there was always excitement at such a time, for it sometimes happened that the beast was seized by such terror that it was landed dead.
"Now, then, dirty beast!
His man's pride revolted at the idea of becoming a crushed and blinded beast.
And then, you silly beast, how can I divide eleven sous into three?
Before him the Voreux was crouching, with its air of an evil beast, its dimness pricked with a few lantern lights.
The eternal wretchedness, beginning over and over again, the brutalizing labour, the fate of a beast who gives his wool and has his throat cut, all the misfortune disappeared, as though swept away by a great flood of sunlight; and beneath the dazzling gleam of fairyland justice descended from heaven.
That morning, when the men and the girl set out for the pit, Maheude sat up in her bed to say to Jeanlin:"You know that if you begin that game again, you little beast, I'll take the skin off your bottom!"
Then, when Trompette had passed, he replied, on the subject of Bataille:"Oh, he's a cunning old beast!
It was Chaval who had leapt in through the open door to give her this lunge of a vicious beast.
"He's a filthy beast," she said at last.
"Only a filthy beast could have such nasty ideas.
"Hold your row, bloody beast!
For a moment Jeanlin was in terror, Bébert having learned through a trammer that Madame Rasseneur had seen them steal Poland; but when he had decided to go back and quietly release the beast at the door of the Avantage, he shouted louder than ever, and opened his new knife, brandishing the blade and proud of its glitter.
He went on:"Where is the beast who does not understand that?
And now you shall have a drink of it; yes, yes, like a beast, with your jaws in the trough!"
He heard them abusing him for his large salary, calling him a bloated idler, a bloody beast who stuffed himself to indigestion with good things, while the worker was dying of hunger.
All the old Flemish blood was there, heavy and placid, taking months to get heated, and then giving itself up to abominable savagery, listening to nothing until the beast was glutted by atrocities.
Ah! the bloody beast, he's done for!"
He's done too much, the dirty beast!"Mouquette was already unfastening and drawing off the trousers, while the Levaque woman raised the legs.
They showed each other the bleeding fragment as an evil beast from which each of them had suffered, and which they had at last crushed, and saw before them there, inert, in their power.
Beaten and deceived at every hour, with shoulders bent from morning to night over a ledger, perhaps she was laughing, while the band of women rushed along with that evil beast, that crushed beast, at the end of the stick.
The sentinel was about to be relieved, and he went away, running off to bury himself at Réquillart, his heart crushed once more by the certainty of defeat; while the little scamp who ran beside him was accusing that dirty beast of a trooper of having called out the guard to fire at them.
When informed of what had been going on, she merely said:"The damned beast dishonours me!"
I don't expect that damned beast now, the brigands must have stopped him from coming."
He became furious on feeling his arm grow limp with pain, and kicked out like a wild beast, aiming at his adversary's belly with his heel.
But what interested the young man, behind the cabin where Bonnemort used to take shelter on tempestuous nights, was a moving shadow--a crouching beast in ambush--which he immediately recognized as Jeanlin, with his long flexible spine like a marten's.
A quarter of an hour later, as the band of strikers, which had gradually enlarged, was becoming threatening, a large door opened on the ground floor and some men appeared drawing out the dead beast, a miserable mass of flesh still fastened in the rope net; they left it in the midst of the puddles of melting snow.
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